Lady&#39;s undergarment.



E. T. SEWER?.

LADYS UNDERGARMENT.

M'Pucmou FILED MAR.16. 1916.

patented Jan. 30, 1917.

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ERNST T. SEIFERT, OF RICHMOND HILL, NE .YOK, ASSIGNOR TG JULIUS KAYSER @c C0., 0F NEW YORK, N.` Y., A CORPORATION 0F NEW YORK.

i LADYS UNDEBGARMENT.

1,214,084. Speciation f Letters Patent Patented Jan. 30, 19t?.

Application led March 16,1916. Serial No. 84,501. l

To all whom 'it may concern: shoulder strap without any objectionable 55 Be it known that I, ERNST T. Sniriin'r, a accumulations or bunc'hing of material. citizen of the United States, and a resident Referring to the drawings, Figure l is a of Richmond Hill, county of Queens, and front elevation of a ladys undervest em- State of New York, have invented a new bodying my invention, the upper part of the and useful Improvement in Ladies Undergarment being distended to approximately 60 garments, of which the following is a speciits full size; Fig. 2 is a view similar to Fig. ication. 1, in which the draw string has been short- My invention is adapted to a variety of cned and the material of the garment at the ladies undergarments, for example, an unupper part and neck opening gathered todervest, chemise, union suit, corset cover, gather; Fig. 3 is a view of the draw 65 camisole and the like. string, the upper part of the garment being The special features of the invention are dotted in.

1 that instead of making and applying to such In the drawings 1 represents the body r t garment the usual shoulder straps provided the garment which may be made of any p. e

with an interiorly located draw string to adn ferred material and may be fashioned as 70 just the garment about the bust and shoiildesired, either a tubular knit fabric or cut ders of the wearer, I do away entirelylwitli from flat piece goods, the latter being the all the material of the garment above the construction shown in the drawings.

@o bust line or neck opening, and so fashion it 2, 2, `represent the arm openings, 3 the and so embody a draw string, or equivalent, neck opening. Q

therewith, that nthe draw string shall not 4 is a hem at the neck opening of the garonly perform its usual functions, but shall ment back and front, the ends 5 of which also alone constitute the shoulder straps of hem at the arm holes are left open.

the garment which are ordinarily desired 6 is the draw string which is passed for day use, and when it is desired to use through the hem in the front and back of 80 the garment for evening wear, all that will the garment, projecting through the open be necessary is to pass the portion of the ends 5 of the hems, forming loops or straps draw string forming the shoulder straps bebeyondthe same. The free ends of the draw 30 neath the arms instead of ovei` the shoulders, string pass through an opening 7, preferwhereupon the draw string being suitably ably made/in the @enter of the front of the 85 manipulated, adjustment of the garment garment, where they are tied in a suitable and its support about the bust of the wearer bow knot 8, as shown, or otherwise secured. may be secured in the usual way. In View of what has been said, the op- It, will be noted that by my invention I eration is obvious. When it is desired to effect a series of marked advantages, both use the garment for day wear, the arms of 90 in manufacture and use, among them the the wearer are thrust through the arm openfollowing: The elimination of the material ings in the usual way, with the loops of the formerly used to make the shoulder straps draw string over the shoulders and the draw 40 and the substitution of a simple hem, or stringis then lengthened or shortened to equivalent, for holding the draw string suit the size or the desires of the wearer. 95 across the front and back of the neck open- It may be that the garment will be most ing of the body of the garment, effects a acceptable when the neck opening is dismarked saving in manufacture, both as to tended as shown in Fig. 1, or if the woman material and labor. The garment is equally be small, then the draw string may be short= well adapted without alteration or change ened and. the material of the garment 100 ofany kind to dual uses, to wit: it has gathered together, in which event, of course, shoulder straps for ordinary or day wear, the bow Swill be somewhat larger. When and is without them for evening wear, the it is desired to use the garment for evening garment being e ually well srpported and wear, then the loops which constitute the fitting equally wel in both instances. Any shoulder straps will be passed directly be- 105 given size of garment is adapted to a wider neath the arms of the wearer and the draw range of use for women 0f varying size than string drawn sufficiently taut across the heretofore and there is perfect fit of the upper part of the bust to adord the usually desired snug fit and the requisite support for the garment, in which event the loops of' the bow knot 8 and the free ends of the draw string'will be somewhat larger.

It willl be obvious to those who are familiar with suchfmatters that although I -have illustrated the invention as embodied in a ladys undervest, Ait is, as stated above, adapted to a variety of ladies7 undergarments and -further that-the garment may be fashioned in any way desired, either ot tubular knit fabric or eutfroln flat piece goods; also that instead of a hem formed of the material of the garment, any other desired means may be employed for holding the draw 'string inthe stated .relation to the upper part nl: the back and front thereof.

I claim A garment of the elass stated adapted to dual uses, havinga single, continuous draw string movably engaged with both the front and back of the neck opening and which alone passing over the shoulders constitutes the shoulder straps, the entire length of the -draW 4stringbeing of equal bulk and freely movable throughout relative to the gan- .ment, whereby the latter is comfortably adapted without removal of the draw string from the garment to both day and evening Wear. o

In Witness whereof I have signed my name to this specification. j

ERNST T. SEIFERT. 

